In 2010, Germany dedicated a new postage stamp to Fritz Reuter, German poet and novelist. A Reuter quotation it used read, in high German: "Wenn einer tut, was er tut, dann kann er nicht mehr tun, als er tut. In English: "If one does what he does, then he can do no more than he does!"
At the #ImmigrantGenSoc, our late board member Eldon Knuth, who contributed so much to German #genealogy research, Reuter was one of his prime interests. We have several books of his by/on this man & his work.